T
1. True.
A
Lisp compiler by Johnathan A. Rees in 1982 at Yale University.
T has
static scope and is a near-superset of
Scheme.
Unix source is available.
T is written in itself and compiles to efficient native code.
Used as the basis for the Yale
Haskell system.
Maintained by David Kranz <
[email protected]>.
Current version: 3.1.
(ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/systems/t3.1).
A
multiprocessing version of T is available (ftp://masala.lcs.mit.edu/pub/mult).
Runs on
Decstation,
SPARC, Sun-3,
Vax under
Unix, Encore,
HP, Apollo,
Macintosh under
A/UX.
E-mail: <
[email protected]> (bugs). E-mail: <
[email protected]>.
(1991-11-26)
["The T Manual", Johnathan A. Rees <
[email protected]> et al, Yale U, 1984].
2. A
functional language.
["T: A Simple Reduction Language Based on Combinatory Term Rewriting", Ida et al, Proc of Prog Future Generation Computers, 1988].
3. (lower case) The
Lisp atom used to represent "true", among other things.
"false" is represented using the same atom as an empty list,
nil.
This
overloading of the basic constants of the language helps to make Lisp
write-only code.
4. In transaction-processing circles, an abbreviation for "transaction".
5. (Purdue) An alternative spelling of "
tee".
